Victor Hagea

Born: July 22, 1948, Lupeni/Hunedoara, RomaniaI have been interested in drawing and painting since youth, and had a rigorous arts education.I have been much influenced by the Flemish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and French great masters. I saw in their multi-faceted work multiple windows toward the absolute. Then Dali showed me what kinds of possibilities dwell within the domain of the "real" and what the artists can make of it. After a time of experimenting in several directions such as cubism, constructivism, and abstractionism and using various techniques, I came back to the kind of painting that best expresses who I am. I have always dreamed of painting this way, finding means to capture the passing and evanescent nature of reality through forms that transcend it. Traditional Indian philosophy claims that "life is a dream," underscoring an invisible boundary that separates different worlds from each other and therefore the respective "realities" that correspond to them. There is something in each "reality" that transcends its physical immediacy taking the form of a projection or emanation, thus outgrowing its deterministic corset and finding its "super-reality" at a higher level. I believe my textual "Painting as performance repre...

EDUCATION: 

Graduate of Academy of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1980 Biennial of Painting, Bucharest
1984 Biennial of Painting, Bucharest
1988 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1989 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1995 ART’ 95 International Art Competition, New York
1995 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1996 Salon International d’ Art Contemporain Nice, Palais des Expositions
1996 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1997 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1999 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
2001 - 2004 OPERA Gallery Paris-New York-Singapore-Miami-Hong Kong
2002 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2003 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2004 - 2005 „The Labyrinthe“ Castle Honhardt Dellarte
since 2004 exposing on various galleries from Paris and France
2005 Europ’Art, Palexpo, Genève
2005 International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium
since 2006 Astarte Gallery, Paris
2006 Art en Capital, Grand Palais, Paris
2009 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2010 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2011 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2012 Munich 1868 royal artists ...